Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kernel interfaces for multiqueue aware socket

[Junchang Wang]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Changli Gao <xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> SKF_AD_QUEUE doesn't know number of rx queues. Thus user application can't
>> specify right SKF_AD_QUEUE.
>
> It is wrong. AFAIK, you can get the queue number through
> /sys/class/net/eth*/queues/ or /proc/interrupts
>

Valuable comment. Thanks.

>
> If you turn to SKF_AD_QUEUE, I think no patch for kernel is needed.
>
This patch set is about parallelization of socket interfaces to gain
performance boost (say, from 1Mpps to around 5Mpps), rather than
simply bounding socket to cpu/queue. Therefore, it does worth having.


Thanks.
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--Junchang
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